oregon trail generation
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
7
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A transitional microgeneration born from the mid- to late 1970s to the early to mid-1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.
American usage
name
Example Sentences
- "Now our teacher candidates are almost 100% members of the Oregon Trail Generation. They answer email on their iPhones and play computer games on their cell phones when they are bored."
- ""I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation." "What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation.""
- "Unlike the millennial generation that followed us— the “digital natives” who can never remember a time before computers—the Oregon Trail Generation grew up on the cusp of changes that transformed modern life."
Etymology
Coined in reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
the Oregon Trail Generation (canonical)